View Full Version : Can someone end an auction early?
ryosnk
02-21-2006, 01:09 PM
Hello, I received an email from a person who is offering a very decent amount of money for an item that I'm selling. But someone already bid on the item but the person has a negative and only has one positive. If I cancel the auction would ebay charge me any fees and can the person who bid on the item give me a negative? Any info would be great, thanks.
scsg75
02-21-2006, 01:30 PM
it's likely a scam if they are offering you a large amount of money and want you to end the auction early. That way, you pull the auction from ebay and have no recourse through them after they scam you out of the item. You can do it, but at your own risk and at the risk of being scammed with little or no recourse. I would not do it. It's also against ebay policy for buyers to offer money outside of the bid system for items.
JackSuper
02-21-2006, 06:01 PM
if you cancel the auction you are still charged listing fees. if the buyer is serious about paying you the price he quoted, offer to set up a different auction with the specific buy-it-now price for him.
If you end the auction early to sell to him outside of eBay he would not be able to leave you FB on eBay. It's against eBay's rules and can get you suspended, although there's no way for them to ever find out.
scsg75, has a good point about being scammed. Just make sure they are going to pay you through a legit service. No wire transfers, no WU money orders, no using their Fedex account to ship, and definitely no shipping it off as soon as you get some bogus confirmation e-mail from the USPS or WU, etc etc.
Vinny
02-21-2006, 06:24 PM
The best way to do this is the set up a private BIN auction as JackSuper said, agree to an exact time you'll start it so he knows when he can bid.
Of course, he could back out of it and you'd be left with no sale and the listing fees.
Chacrana
02-21-2006, 06:34 PM
if you cancel the auction you are still charged listing fees. if the buyer is serious about paying you the price he quoted, offer to set up a different auction with the specific buy-it-now price for him.
That's the way to do it.
AcePuppy
02-21-2006, 06:57 PM
Someone who offers another person a decent amount of money for an ongoing auction is most likely a scammer. There are so many of the same emails that float around just tell em to bid the max there gonna pay, that way if someone else bids over that you got a better deal than the offer.
ryosnk
02-21-2006, 09:28 PM
Thank you all for the information.
iazybandit
02-21-2006, 09:35 PM
Ask him for his eBay username. This will show if he has any feedback. If hes serious about purchasing, tell him to send payment via PayPal. Once you receive payment, I would end auction. I usually ask for payment up front before ending auction as sometimes, they could be jerking you just want to waste your time and money.